Smart Building Integration into a Smart City (SBISC): Development of a New Evaluation Framework

Abstract

The aim of this study is to define the features that smart buildings should fulfil in order to be compatible with the overall context of the smart city and to introduce a new evaluation framework of Smart Buildings Integration into a Smart City (SBISC). By analysing scientific literature as well as existing international and local project examples, the features of smart buildings that are expected to be adopted in smart cities were identified. The SBISC evaluation methodology was developed and applied to a set of selected projects. The literature review revealed that the smart building and smart city concepts were developed in different time frames and by different stakeholders and, thus, need to be realigned. The most important aspect is to employ in a smart building all the functionalities proposed by the smart areas of the city and vice versa by enabling the recommended features of smart materials, smart building services, and smart construction to serve for the surrounding systems. Nine office buildings representing smart building concept in different smart cities built within the period 2007–2018 with a total area from 10,000 m2 to 143,000 m2 were selected for the analysis. The research of selected projects revealed that the smart buildings have more potential to become smarter by utilizing smart cities capabilities in the areas of smart energy, smart mobility, smart life, and smart environment. Smart cities are the most prominent trend in creating a cohesive environment.

Underlying indicators for measuring smartness of buildings in the construction industry

“…However, there are no particular recommendations on how advanced technologies should be applied to achieve the smart building concept. It is therefore important to identify what indicators would be most critical in measuring a building's smartness (Apanaviciene et al, 2020).…”

Smart Building Integration into a Smart City: Comparative Study of Real Estate Development

“…Construction stages of real estate project development in terms of analyzed energy efficiency solutions, environmental solutions, safety, and security solutions were related to smart energy, smart mobility, and smart environment domains of the smart city [13]. However, the smart construction concept is still mostly limited by smart technologies elaboration within the construction site and collaboration within the project internal environment but not so intense integration with the city systems [18].…”

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Research Challenges and Advancements in the field of Sustainable Energy Technologies in the Built Environment

“…The concept of smart buildings has been developed in parallel with the concept of smart cities. Therefore, tasks related to the required practices to integrate smart buildings into smart cities also present significant interest [62]. The investigation of financial Another field of scientific interest is the integration of sustainable practices and sustainable buildings into smart cities.…”

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